Interviews/Entrevistas
Gloria E. Anzaldúa, best known for her books Borderlands/La Frontera and This Bridge Called My Back, is one of the foremost feminist thinkers and activists of our time. As one of the first openly lesbian Chicana writers, Anzaldúa has played a major role in redefining queer, female, and Chicano/a identities, and in developing inclusionary movements for social justice.\ In this memoir-like collection, Anzaldúa's powerful voice speaks clearly and passionately. She recounts her life, explains...
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In this memoir-like collection, Anzaldúa's powerful voice speaks clearly and passionately. She recounts her life, explains many aspects of her thought, and explores the intersections between her writings and postcolonial theory. For readers engaged in postcoloniality, feminist theory, ethnic studies, or queer identity, Interviews/Entrevistas will be a key contemporary document.
Acknowledgements Risking the Personal" An Introduction 1. Turning Points: An Interview with Linda Smuckler 2. Within the Crossroads: Lesbian/Feminist/Spiritual Development 3. Lesbian Wit: Conversation with Jeffner Allen 4. Making Choices: Writing, Spirituality, Sexuality,and the Political: An Interview with AnaLouise Keating 5. Quinicentennial: From Vistimhood to Active Resistance: Ines Hernanadez-Avila y Gloria E. Anzaldua 6. Making Alliances, Queerness, and Bridging Conocimientos: An Interview with Jamie Lee Evans 7. Doing Gigs: Speaking, Writing, and Change: AN Interview with Debbie Blake and Carmen Abrego 8. Writing: A Way of Life: An Interview with Maria Henriquez Betancor 9. Toward a Mestiza Rhetoric: Gloria Anzaldua on Composition, Postcoloniality, and the Spiritual: An Interview with Andrea Lunsford 10. Last Words? Spirit Journeys: An Interview with AnaLouise Keating Primary WOrks Cited The Interviews The Authors Index perspectives on her work, the multiple and overlapping realities of her life, her beliefs about fluid sexual identities and desires, and her theories on convergence--a way of writing that combines the sexual, the mental, the emotional, and the psychic-supernatural in a written stream-of-consciousness. (Booklist)
